Imagine you like the shape of the front of a Mini Cooper and the rear of a Ford mustang. You could take the paneling from the interior of a rolls Royce and the seats from a Lamborghini and make a really cool car.

Unfortunately, unlike modern standard PCs, phones are individually designed and built and even models in the same range can’t use each other’s parts or software.

Each component is designed to work with each of the other components and just slapping them together doesn’t necessarily make a new working product.

… Boeing …

Is “AI” (ie, large language modeling, also known as enhanced word prediction; and with no logical reasoning ability) really so important that this infrastructure needs to be built?

For the love of the gods, let this bubble burst already!

Labour and materials depends on your country and location. Do you need to pay a bribe permit to local government as well? Will the neighbour on the other side pay half? Does it need to be painted?

Get a few quotes, ask for references of other fences they’ve built, and compare locally.

What a pretty face! Is he a cocker-doodle?

Rescued my daughter in the cliched flat tyre in the rain scenario, the flashing light was good to alert other drivers. I think it’s something that could be useful very rarely.

Checking under the toilet seat for redbacks.

More than Google does

No words

… goes on to write article

I was part of a team that was trained in COBOL to help update code in time for Y2K. We’ve been headhunted by the same company several times in the last ten years to further update and maintain the same code, originally written in the mid-1970s. I’m now 56, and I suspect that code base will live at least as long as I do.

Getting married

I just thought it looked cool.

Octopi aren’t fish.

Do you mean collective nouns ?

Or just “generic groups”, as in animal, plant, rock, fungi, lichen ?

Maybe group words that aren’t as specific as collective nouns and not as generic as groups:

• canine
• marsupial
• mammal
• primates
• carnivores
• vertebrates
• reptiles
• birds

Does that help?

Depends on the number of kids and how old. I’ve never had a problem with it.

It might or might not:

• arrive
• work
• be genuine
• be fit for purpose

Yes

Like anything else, the more you practice, the better you get. I remember how much anxiety and stress I had when I was learning; now I don’t even think about it.

Could you get a friend or relative to take you out to a quiet area to get more practice away from traffic and other road users? Then slowly build up to more stressful situations. I was taking my kids a few times a week around the quieter back streets, round and round and round, until they got their confidence up, then we went out to small roads with traffic, and built up until they were driving on busy main roads and freeways.

Here in Australia, you can choose to get an automatic-only license and not have to learn manual. Is that an option where you are?

Do people still use Chrome ?

I recognise that reference!

The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth